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National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) Secretary Noel Felongco vowed to help
the Bangsamoro Government reduce poverty incidence in the region.
He said
the NAPC will gather local chief executives, planning officers, and Bangsamoro
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) ministers to orient them on the
Commission’s poverty alleviation projects.
The
NAPC will roll-out a five-year development plan (2019-2023) dubbed the
Sambayanihan Serbisyong Sambayanan to deliver basic social services
prioritizing the poorest communities. It aims to help attain the
administration’s poverty reduction target and contribute to the realization of
the AmBisyon Natin 2040.
Secretary
Felongco said the national government
seeks “to accelerate the country’s economic engine and reduce over-all
poverty incidence from 21 percent in 2015 to 14 percent by 2023.”
Communities
in the Bangsamoro autonomous region are among the NAPC’s Sambayanihan priority
areas.
“We
will ensure that all basic needs are accessible in the BARMM,” he added.
Derived
from the unifying themes of the calls of the basic sectors at the National
Anti-Poverty Sectoral Summit in 2016, the 10 basic needs of Filipinos are food
and land reform, water, shelter, work, health, education, social protection,
healthy environment, peace, and participation.
The
agency will also prioritize five key issues in the region such as peace and
order, increasing inflation rate related to agriculture and fisheries, lack of
inter-agency collaboration, inadequate community participation, and climate
change.
“Majority
of the population in the BARMM are farmers and fishermen. If we can improve
agriculture and fisheries, we can reduce poverty incidence,” Abdullah Cusain,
BARMM assistant executive secretary, said.
In
2018, the BARMM’s gross regional domestic product (GRDP) posted 7.2 percent
growth rate in which the sectors of agriculture, hunting, forestry, and fishing
remained the largest share in the region’s total economic performance. (BPI-BARMM)
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